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World War Two / Re: Does anyone know where 50 PTC was?
« on: Tuesday 17 January 17 21:30 GMT (UK) »According to RAF abbreviations PTC means Personnel and Training Command
Wrong timeframe for this meaning, unfortunately
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Wrong timeframe for this meaning, unfortunately
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World War Two / Re: Does anyone know where 50 PTC was?
« on: Tuesday 17 January 17 21:28 GMT (UK) »As far as I can tel it's defn 50 as per attached
Still wonder if they meant 60, there's nothing for 50 in the archives http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7162605
There's mention here of "Ray Sturtivant's book 'RAF Flying Training and Support Units Since 1912'" that may be worth looking in to http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-351798.html
and it may be an idea to also try a specific RAF forum such as http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/index.php
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Are the photographs of the same person Joseph Knight?
« on: Monday 16 January 17 23:19 GMT (UK) »The chin cleft could be part of the theatrical makeup, couldn't it? I'm not sure when the seated photograph was taken, I'll see if I can find out.
Yes, probably - looking at it again it seems too dark to be a cleft shadow. Could it be another male in the back row?
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Are the photographs of the same person Joseph Knight?
« on: Monday 16 January 17 22:37 GMT (UK) »
There is a distinct chin cleft in one but not the other. I also wonder how far apart these photos are date-wise?
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World War Two / Re: Does anyone know where 50 PTC was?
« on: Monday 16 January 17 16:08 GMT (UK) »
Seems to mean either Personnel Transit Centre or Personnel Transit Camp.
Are you sure it reads 50 PTC (which doesn't appear to exist) and not 60 PTC (which was in the general area)?
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Are you sure it reads 50 PTC (which doesn't appear to exist) and not 60 PTC (which was in the general area)?
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Australia / Re: Needing Help
« on: Sunday 15 January 17 06:52 GMT (UK) »
The brother Albert LOVETT presumably enlisted overseas.
He was killed in action and here is the news report.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203396749
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Albert Edward LOVETT was born in Brighton, Victoria, 1889 reg 949
Mother: Mary Alethea (Digney)
Father: Wm Hy
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Australia / Re: Rose lydia hardstaff
« on: Friday 13 January 17 06:30 GMT (UK) »i Cant quiet comprehed this because william henry Nolen and Mary Digney had a child Henry Donald
These death notices for William Donald LOVETT Feb 1929 gives his siblings.
Summary.
Eldest son of late William and LOVETT and Mary HARDSTAFF. Aged 46 years
Husband of Sarah Ann. Of Nichols Street Devonport.
Siblings. Ettie, Jim, Rose and Albert.
Funeral notice also same page.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67797931
Death of his wife of William Donald LOVETT in Melbourne lists the children of the couple. 1946.
Funeral notice on the same pages states she will be buried a Devonport Cemetery
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68972674
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4th November 1882 so if William Donald was 46 in 1929 he was born 1883 they then had a child Elishia Naomi 13th April 1884 its all very confusing
Quite possible that Henry Donald went by the name William Donald
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Australia / Re: Rose lydia hardstaff
« on: Friday 13 January 17 06:25 GMT (UK) »Looks as if the brick maker was in Latrobe in 1882 using the name LOVETT.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38277527
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Nice find! There's a convict, Charles Lovett, who was a bricklayer - and I'm wanting to check William Lovett/Nolan's occupations to see if he was solely a brickmaker. It may be that Charles is father to William??
Add: from the births I've found, he is listed as a brickmaker for a few, a labourer for one and a bricklayer for Henrietta's
Add: 1873 birth of Charles Henry Lovett to Charles Henry (bricklayer) and Martha (nee Hill)
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD33-1-51p116j2k
Death of Charles Henry Lovett, bricklayer, 1889
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-58p154j2k
Will of Charles Lovett showing William Lovett as the eldest son
https://stors.tas.gov.au/AD961-1-7-1523
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Australia / Re: Rose lydia hardstaff
« on: Friday 13 January 17 02:58 GMT (UK) »
Death of a Mary Lovett, 8 yo, daughter of a bricklayer. Informant, William Lovett, the brother. Latrobe Nov 1874
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-43p141j2k
LATROBE. (1874, November 6). The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880), p. 3. Retrieved January 13, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66077161
If this is William Lovett/Nolan, he would have been 27 yo, based on age at 1881, so possibly is the brother mentioned or is the bricklayer father
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-43p141j2k
LATROBE. (1874, November 6). The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tas. : 1835 - 1880), p. 3. Retrieved January 13, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66077161
If this is William Lovett/Nolan, he would have been 27 yo, based on age at 1881, so possibly is the brother mentioned or is the bricklayer father